cafeteria

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A self-service restaurant where you choose your food and carry it to a table, often in a school or workplace.

   We had lunch in the school cafeteria.

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.

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